Re: HOWTO use udev to manage /dev

From: James Simmons
Date: Thu Feb 19 2004 - 15:24:04 EST



> udev can create different /dev nodes for these devices. But as udev
> does not modify the kernel code at all, it can not "solve" the
> duplication of numbers in the kernel at all. Nor is it meant to.

Okay. If I change the major number of serial ttys inside the kernel
of course udev would properly handle this. Now the question is would this
break userland applications using the serial port?


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